Question

Alicia is making cupcakes for a party she is having and wants to make sure everyone gets at least 1 cupcake

The recipe calls for 1/2 teaspoon of salt for every batch and each batch makes 21 cupcakes if the part will have a total of 84 people attending how many teaspoon of salt will Alicia need.

Answer 1

Let's imagine that x is the number of teaspoon of salt needed to make at least 84 cupcakes.

So we know that, 1 batch makes 21 cupcakes, and we need at least 84 cupcakes, so the number of cupcakes batch needed here should be:

84 ÷ 21 = 4 (batches)

Since we knew the number of batches that we need to make the cupcakes, we now calculate the amount of sugar needed. We have:

1/2 teaspoon of salt for every 1 batch.

x teaspoon of salt for every 4 batches.

x = (4 . 1/2) . 1 = 2 (teaspoons)

Answer 2

2 teaspoons

21+21=42 so for every 1 teaspoon there is 42 people

42+42=84 so it’s 2 teaspoons